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. No; 256,498. j Patented Apr.18,1882.

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, UNITED STATES FATENT OFFICE.

ALBERT R. PERKINS, OF NEWTON, ASSIGNOR TO SIMODI S, HATCH & WHITTEN,

- OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

SHIRT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 256,498, dated April 18, 1882.

Application filed February 27, 1882. (No model.)

and represented in the accompanying draw ings.

defined in the claims hereinafter presented, re lates to the method of cutting the front of a shirt in one piece of cloth, so as to render such front double-breasted, my said invention being specially useful in the manufacturing of overshirts such as generally worn by wheelmen or lawn-tennis or base-ball players.

Figures 1 and 2 exhibit a shirt-front cut in accordance with my improvement. Fig. 3 is a cross-section of the cloth, showing the method of box-plaiting it, as hereinafter set forth. The piece of cloth A, of sufficient size for the front of a shirt-body, I form at its upper end with two neck-notches, a a, and shoulderslopes I) b, and arm-scyes c 0, arranged as rep: resented. Next I slit the cloth in' a straight line, as shown at d c, from its upper edge down along its middle toa point, e, at or about at the waist, and in case I desire to have each 0 breast portion curved at its lower part I cut in the cloth, in manner as shown in Fig. 2, curved slits e g and of, extending from the line d c,- or I make in the cloth/at the lower end of the slitd e a triangular hole, 0 gf, having its lower ends, gf, straight and its two sides, cfand e g, curved, as represented.

In making the shirt, one breastportion next and aside of the slit d c isto be drawn forward and lapped on the other or like bfreast 4o portion on the opposite side of such slot, until the notch a of the front portion shall be exactly over the notch act the second portion. In Fig. 1 these breast portions are shown at d e t, d e i, and each may have in it at its middle 5 a slot, 71, to extend down within it from the My said invention, the nature of which is middle ofits notch a. This last-named slit is for the purpose of having alacing extended across it and through two series of holes in the cloth ,such being to give to the breast portion the appearance of a shirt to open in front.

When the cloth is cut with curved slits cf and c g, in continuation ofthe slit d e, as shown in Fig. 2, the part of the cloth between the lower ends of such slits is to be boX-plaited, as represented in Fig. 3, in order to bring together the'points g and f, and to cause one breast portion d c g k t' on one side of the slit d c to so lap on the other breast portion on the opposite side of the said slit that the notch a of the first portion may be directly over the notch act the other portion.

By inserting in the cloth rows of stitches on the two lines ciof Fig. 1, or on the two curved lines 9 lo a and fk i of Fig. 2, or by narrowly plaiting the cloth on each of such lines and sewing down the plaits, the shirt-body may have imparted to each breast portion the appearanceof a shield.

In each of the breast portions, near the line d e, I usually make a series of button-holes, s, to receive buttons t, fixed to the cloth near each of the lines ei, such separable connections enabling either breast portion, when lapped over the other, to be buttoned down to it.

I claim- 1. The shirt-front in one piece of cloth, having at its middle and to extend down from its upper edge the slit d e, and also having in its upper part the twoneck-notches act, arranged with such slit and the shoulder-slopes, substantially as set forth. A

ALBERT R. PERKINS.

- Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, E. B. PRATT. 

